Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:55:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Marxist theory


At 5:14 PM 10/7/96, Justin Schwartz wrote:

>The most important reason for modelling ang thinking about utopias
>is this, however. Without answeers to the questions workersa ctullay ask:
>Why won't this end up like Russia? What reason do we think these chnages
>will not leave us worse off? we will have no mass movement for socialist
>change.

And Roemer-style models will satisfy the workers' questions? Puh-leeze. Of
course socialists have to devise blueprints for a better future - but with
reference to actually existing institutions, not crackpot affairs like
coupon socialism - an idea that shows mostly that Roemer has no goddamn
idea how stock markets work or what their social function is.

Doug

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